My beautiful neighbor gifted us Smoked Chicken Sausages! We love them so much, and this is our first simple recipe!

Been eating this forever since childhood. Someone brought the dish to a family reunion. Then it was a staple comfort food, set in my memories of yesteryears. I have passed this dish on to my children and grandchildren.

To make a chili version just use red, green an yellow bell as well as a med poblano

A fun, spicy twist on fried rice. Yummy!

For me, this is a bowl of Sunday comfort food. It’s a mix of my favorite vegetables, in some serious pot likker, over rice. We eat it with fresh sliced tomatoes and cornbread.

Sweet and savory and spicy! :hungry

This dish, which kind of falls somewhere between paella and jambalaya, was a happy accident. It came about a few nights ago, when I repurposed some leftover tomato pilaf (I've been all about pilaf lately). Rather than simply nuking the rice, I dumped it into a pan and sprinkled on some homemade fajita spice. The result was amazing, way beyond what I expected. The rice was fluffy, soft but my mushy, super-flavourful, and even formed a bit of oh-so-irresistible socarrat (the crusty, crunchy bottom of a paella that everyone fights over). I decided to repeat the dish, but with a few extra ingredients. Once again, it turned out fantastic. The only niggle was that the socarrat wasn't quite as prominent (as you can see in the picture). Dinner was running late and I had to get food on the table... what's a cook to do? Nobody seemed to mind, anyway. They were too busy devouring delicious rice.

Good meal to use up what you have. Easily adaptable :ohyeaah

So easy to make and it only takes 15 minutes to make.

Back home we have a dear friend Coco that the kids absolutely loved. This is our version.